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The new advert about switching current accounts
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What the hell are these new Nationwide adverts about
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The new Go Compare advert.
Had I been in Venice I'd have pushed the bunch of ....s overboard into the canal... Fantastic 🙊 |
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My latest most hated ad. Smyths..... "If I were toyyyyyeeeeeeeee!" Jezuz Chroise. Did the writers of this Beyonce song seriously give permission for this song to be used for this Godawful ad? Quote:
The new advert about switching current accounts
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I think the problem is they chose a breathy-type version and used the voices or real people who they have helped, when something with more of a triumphant feel to it would have served them far better, i.e. a 'we are succeeding' rather than 'we want'. Or I could be totally off the mark and owe loads of people an apology.
As regards japanese translations, on here I get squares with codes in them and no sign of a bird flapping its wing ("medifus"?) or urinating dogs. It all displays correctly on the other box but I get a distinct impression that what was really wanted was the extra-short version of the expressed sentiment which I expect, much like the english version, has a greater syllabic simplicity. Makes me wanna puke! This kind of sound went out about 5 minutes after Dido's last top 10 hit! Quote:
I don't care if she is easy on the eye that bl**dy SCS girl is unbelievably irritating. And I don't want to hear ANYTHING about the "festive season" in September.
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The latest advert I saw in the cinema that you think is going to be about how important children/small moments are in life etc... but its for a bloody bank! (Natwest) FFS!
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Would it be a word beginning with F?
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The tuneless woman, with a tuneless background, singing "That's Amore". Don't know what it's advertising but I can't hit mute quick enough, as her voice slices into my eardrums and is as welcome as a visit from ISIS! And the Easyjet advert with people leaping about on an old computer keyboard, ripping off Bowie dancing on the typewriter in Absolute Beginners. Virgin Media: Quote:
Is that what it is advertising? First time I saw it it made me incredibly angry.
Patronising kids I do not like! Quote:
Oak furniture land - I cannot stand the two morons employed for this campaign. There's clearly no effing veneer in the PR company's heads either.
"Pay no interest" and the lad stops listening to him. Ugh... LAME!Quote:
It does however show us what advertising creatives think people are obsessed with.
Why on earth would having a new couch "matter" for Christmas ?? What's next - new car for Easter? A boob job for New Year's Eve ?
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Oak Furniture Land - the gag doesnt even work as it mixes a metaphor! You TAKE AN INTEREST in something, you PAY ATTENTION to something, FFS
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I love the Jack Whitehall ads. So funny.
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That Nationwide ad with the guy giving a baffling monologue to camera. What a load of cobblers.
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I quite like the poem!
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I quite like the poem!
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The latest advert I saw in the cinema that you think is going to be about how important children/small moments are in life etc... but its for a bloody bank! (Natwest) FFS!
There's also the one where a young girl is watching an on-line vid of Nadia Comaneci (I think). It's set to Alicia Keys' 'This Girl Is On Fire', and the general theme is about female achievement and empowerment, and especially how important it it for young girls to realise they can do anything they set their mind to. Nothing wrong with the concept and I assumed it would be from a charity or Govt. campaign or something to encourage more girls to try...something. Turns out it's just flogging bloody Virgin Media. Worst current one by far, though, is the one that uses a setup of a boy seemingly about to be bullied - or worse - by a gang of kids on an estate, only for the boy to defuse their impulse to rob/ beat him by showing him a puppy, and it's for Pedigree frickin' Chum. Bullying and kids beating kids is bad enough in real-life. No-one needs to use it and no-one wants to see it in an advert. Quote:
Oak Furniture Land - the gag doesnt even work as it mixes a metaphor! You TAKE AN INTEREST in something, you PAY ATTENTION to something, FFS
![]() Plus its just a shit gag They're not claiming they can change the world, or even change your life. They just want to sell you an oak table and matching sideboard. Yes, they're a bit shit, but for me, that's their charm.
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For me all ads should be done by the Ronseal people. "This is our stuff/thing, its great - buy it!"
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I wonder who at Confused.com or their advertising agency thought it would be a good idea to flog car insurance using a backing song written and performed by a bloke who died in a car crash?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Bolan#Death |
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For me all ads should be done by the Ronseal people. "This is our stuff/thing, its great - buy it!"
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The idiots in advertising have no idea of the context of songs.
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... a boy seemingly about to be bullied - or worse - by a gang of kids on an estate, only for the boy to defuse their impulse to rob/ beat him by showing him a puppy, ...
The one where he got a free ride on the bus because the conductor was so impressed with the sight of the magnificent trifle is one that just stuck in my memory - so this is what comes to mind... |
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I saw one on a bus stop for Oasis drink: , "It’s summer. You’re thirsty. We’ve got sales targets."
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an ad I am getting fed up with repeatedly seeing (though more on Sky than ITV or 4) is for BRitish Gas offering £400 on your old boiler or free electric on Saturday or Sunday and that flamin' penguin
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For me its not the product commercials but the constant programme trailers especially on ITV.
Its annoying to see a trailer, then its followed by a voice over repeating exactly the same thing. |
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an ad I am getting fed up with repeatedly seeing (though more on Sky than ITV or 4) is for BRitish Gas offering £400 on your old boiler or free electric on Saturday or Sunday and that flamin' penguin
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Oh god Park Hampers have started their christmas campaign
It's still September for f***s sake |
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YOPA's advert. It uses mock 'Village People' - towards the end the dialogue goes:
''How do you spell that?'' ''Y-O...'' *to the music of YMCA* (roll eyes) Then a voiceover interrupts: ''NO, not Y-O-P-A...it's YOPA.com!'' Now, I'm sure in some marketing person's 'creative' and 'edgy' brain that all added up and made sense and was very witty, but why should a voiceover interrupt and insist it's wrong to be spelled out?! Someone in the ad asked for it to be spelled out! I don't even...I just...it doesn't make sense! Also Nationwide's rambling poem adverts that go on forever. Dreadful and muted/channel changed when they come on Hankook tyres - a short ad but a lot of it is taken up plugging the Real Madrid football team and how Hankook 'supply' the Real Madrid football team. I get how sponsorship works, but Real Madrid's football team aren't 'really' relevant to a British audience. |
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